Product Updates (Release Notes) 2025

New in this release  🚀

Administrative 📄

Visibility of Tenant Configurations

This release introduces a new administrator dashboard that enhances visibility into tenant configurations. It provides a curated view of tenant settings, including descriptions, default values, and tenant-specific values, addressing the previous lack of insight into on-demand offerings. This update improves transparency by allowing customers to easily view their configurations and discover configurations that are available but not yet in use.

The first version of the overview will be available starting January 20th. The dashboard will be available as an on demand feature, please contact Service Desk to activate.

For more information, refer to our help documentation. 

Org Units (Closed Beta)

We are excited to announce the closed beta of enhanced Org Unit management, now available to select customers. Administrators can now create and modify Org Units, manage user assignments, and link assessments and content directly, without needing Inspera’s service desk support. This feature is available to the "Adminstrator" role, with a new standard user role coming soon. Interested customers can contact their Account Manager for participation in closed beta. 

Administrators can now:

• Create and manage your organization structure.
• Search Org Units by name or ID.
• Access Org Unit IDs for updates using API.
• Link users and resources to Org Units.
• View users and resources assigned to each Org Unit.
• Access detailed resource lists linked to Org Units.
• Edit Org Unit details like Name and External ID.
• Hide Org Units to park for audit or block further resource assignments. 

The new org units interface (closed beta) will be available as an on demand feature, please contact Service Desk to activate.

For more information, refer to our help documentation. 

Deliver 🤖

Rebranding - Inspera Resilience Proctoring

Next month we will share details about a new suite of Inspera proctoring products, including Inspera Live Proctoring.

In preparation, this month we have officially changed the name of our existing remote proctoring product to Inspera Resilience Proctoring. You will see this new name reflected in the test setup settings, the proctoring admin header (see below), and Help Center articles. No candidate-facing changes to the product will be made as part of this rebranding.

If you use Inspera Resilience Proctoring, please consider any updates you may need to make to your internal documentation to incorporate this new product name.

Read more to find out more about these proctoring solutions.

Grade (Marking 2.0) 💯

Bulk Upload of Explanations

We’re excited to introduce an expansion of Inspera's current offline capabilities, empowering graders to not only grade and mark, but also provide explanations to candidates offline. 

Graders can now download either of two Excel files—“Marks and Explanations as Excel” or “Grades and Explanations as Excel”- both of which include a new "Explanations" column. These files, which previously supported updating marks and grades (existing on demand functionality), now also allow the inclusion of explanations. Once modified, the files can be uploaded back into Inspera, where marks or grades, and explanations are automatically synchronized according to predefined rules. Users are shown success notifications, error alerts, and links to documentation for troubleshooting.

For more details, please refer to help documentation. 

Marks by section display in UI

The section header of the candidate performance data table now has an improved format to display:

• The number of questions per section
• Marks awarded by section ("Marks: {awarded marks} out of {max marks by section}")

Both planner and grader user roles can find this data table in the Candidate in Focus workspace  and the Results view of the Grading overview workspace (Results view option requires activation). The updated section header helps provide a clearer overview of the section of an assessment.

1. Candidate in focus workspace

2. Results view of Grading overview workspace

Inspera Integrity Browser 🖥️

Inspera Integrity Browser 1.16.6  for MacOS 15

Inspera Integrity Browser is now supported on the latest macOS 15, providing users with enhanced compatibility and a more seamless experience for secure assessments.

Inspera Originality 🕵️

Bulk Upload Functionality - Subjects, Educators, Students 

Administrators in Inspera Originality can now easily add units in bulk through a streamlined process. This is made possible by the bulk upload functionality, which enables administrators to upload subjects, educators, and students in bulk. 

Each unit features a dedicated interface for bulk uploads, allowing administrators to upload subjects, educators, and students separately, with each category using its own individual Excel file upload to facilitate the bulk upload.

Administrators can also manage bulk uploads before finalizing the registration of units, enabling them to edit each entry in the bulk upload as necessary. This ensures that potential errors in the Excel file are addressed before proceeding with the bulk registration of units. 

Thresholds for Exact Match, Altered Text, and Contextual Similarity 

In addition to the Contextual Similarity threshold, Inspera Originality now includes configurable thresholds for Exact Match and Possibly Altered Text classifications. This enhancement offers greater flexibility, enabling institutions to tailor the originality-checking process further. Furthermore, the threshold configuration has been updated with a redesigned interface featuring sliders, providing an improved and more intuitive user experience.

Heads up 💡

End of Support for Safe Exam Browser Version 3.2.5

Inspera will officially remove support for Safe Exam Browser version 3.2.5 beginning March 2025. SEB 3.3.3 contains important security fixes and therefore replaces all older versions including SEB 3.2.5 which should no longer be used.

End of Life for Learning Analytics for Questions and Question Sets

Starting March 2025, we will discontinue support for the Learning Analytics for Questions and Question Sets in Inspera Assessment. This Beta capability will be deprecated in place of the psychometrics dashboard, which will become the primary source for psychometrics data and analytics, with ongoing efforts to introduce new analytics features in future releases.

End of Support for Chromebook lock-down application 

Google is phasing out Chrome Kiosk Apps. Therefore, starting with the May release, Inspera is ending support for the Chromebook application for lock-down. No new development is planned for the Chromebook application from March and support will no longer be available from Inspera after May. Begin migrating to the Chromebook progressive web application now.  

New in this release  🚀

Administrative 📄

Visibility of Tenant Configurations for Customers

Available for: Tenant Administrator 

In January 2025, we introduced the new Tenant configuration dashboard to enhance visibility into tenant configurations. With the February release, we are adding support for downloading tenant configurations in Excel format. The update also includes changes to field descriptions and column names. 

Additionally, this release introduces a dedicated user role, the Tenant Administrator, to provide more granular access control for this feature. In the initial version, users with both the Extended Access and Administrator roles were granted access. However, with the introduction of the new role, all users will lose access to the dashboard immediately after the release. You must assign the new Tenant Administrator role to the relevant users to reinstate access.

The dashboard will be available by default for all customers after the February release.

Read more about this on our Help center  

Organizational Units

Available for: Org Unit Administrator

We are excited to announce the general availability of enhanced Org Unit management. “Org Unit Admin” (new role) can now manage creating and modifying Org Units from a unified interface, without Inspera’s service desk support. They can assign users to org units in bulk. They can view the users, assessments, and content items linked to the respective org units. 

Org Unit Admins can now access the unified interface for org unit management, and

• Create and manage your organizational structure.
• Search Org Units by name or ID.
• Access Org Unit IDs to make modifications using API.
• Assign users to Org Units in Bulk.
• View the list of users, assessments, and content assigned to each Org Unit.
• Modify Org Unit details such as the Name and External ID.
• Hide Org Units to park for audit or block further assignment of users, assessments, or content. 

For more information, refer to our help documentation. 

Proctoring 🖥️

Inspera Recorded, Record & Review, and Live Proctoring

We are excited to announce the release of a new suite of proctoring products, offering:

• Recorded, Record & Review, and Live Proctoring: Select the monitoring type that best suits your needs
• Flexible Configuration: Configure proctoring settings, including dual camera and room scan options
• Locked Browser Options: Choose between a locked browser, an open browser, or a locked browser with permitted resources
• AI-Powered Flagging: AI assists in identifying potential integrity risks and flags the precise moment in the footage they occurred
• Simple User Interface: Easily review flagged recordings and make informed decisions about academic integrity
• Full Proctoring Service: Utilise Inspera's professional proctors or monitor the tests using your own proctors

The proctoring solutions seamlessly integrate with Inspera Assessment, allowing candidates to access their tests the usual way while enabling discreet proctoring in the background. 

Progressive Web Application for Chromebook Assessments ⌨️

Google is phasing out Chrome Kiosk Apps. Therefore, starting with the March release, Inspera is ending support for the Chromebook application for lock-down. Migrate to the progressive web application (PWA) now. The PWA ensures that users can continue using Inspera Assessment on their Chromebooks seamlessly.

This new PWA is designed to replicate the original application's lockdown environment, with the following exceptions:

• If any embedded links in a question are blocked by the Content Security Policy (CSP), test takers will not be able to access them in the player.
• Exiting the PWA application when the candidate is offline will require a hard exit.
• If multiple candidates log in using Google SSO on one Chromebook (like in incenter tests), the session is not forgotten when a candidate Exits the PWA.

Admins must also: 

• Add an extension in the Google Admin console once to allow candidates to Exit the PWA application when they are online.
• Provide additional support to ensure the audio recording questions function properly.

Psychometrics Dashboard 🔢

• STATUS: General
• PROCESS FOR ACTIVATION: Contact Service Desk

This dashboard was developed to give Inspera customers a clearer, data-driven perspective on the psychometric KPIs for existing tenancies. Built on Amazon QuickSight, it helps our customers precisely analyze data for each of the proposed assignments.

The psychometrics dashboard allows universities to access psychometrics data about their tests. These metrics are brought to you via a Quicksight dashboard (access on request).  These metrics allow users to understand the “quality” of their tests using carefully crafted data. Some of the KPIs included in the dashboard are: 

• Number of students who started the test
• Mean Score
• Total Score Std Deviation
• Number of Students who did not submit
• Cronbach’s alpha
• Highest score on the test
• Lowest score on the test
• Exposed Questions
• Unexposed Questions
• Omitted Questions
• Answered Questions
• Question difficulty

The dashboard can be downloaded as a PDF and the underlying data powering the visualizations can be exported as a .csv file. Learn more here. 

Inspera Originality 🕵️

LTI 1.3 Platform Notification Service for D2L Brightspace

The Platform Notification Service (PNS) in LTI 1.3 enables seamless communication between the D2L Brightspace LMS and Inspera Originality as an external tool. PNS notifies Inspera Originality when a Course Copy event occurs in the LMS, where course content is duplicated to create a new course.

This ensures that the duplicated course content is mirrored in Inspera Originality, and a corresponding course with the same content is also created, maintaining real-time synchronization between D2L Brightspace and Inspera Originality.

New in this release  🚀

Administrative 📄

Organizational Units - Deletion through User Interface

Available for: Org Unit Administrator

We have enhanced Org Unit management to support deleting Org units from the UI. 

Org Unit Admins can now access the unified interface for org unit management, and

• Create and manage your organizational structure.
• Search Org Units by name or ID.
• Access Org Unit IDs to make modifications using API.
• Assign users to Org Units in Bulk.
• View the list of users, assessments, and content assigned to each Org Unit.
• Modify Org Unit details such as the Name and External ID.
• Hide Org Units to park for audit or block further assignment of users, assessments, or content. 
• Delete Org Units if they are empty and have no child units. 

For more information, refer to our help documentation. 

Inspera Resilience Proctoring 🖥️

Inspera Resilience Proctoring types

The list of proctoring types displayed for Inspera Resilience Proctoring has been updated. It will now reflect only those enabled for your tenancy and hide disabled or unavailable settings.

Author✏️

Code Compile Question Type (Open Beta)

We are pleased to announce that we’re moving the Code Compile question type to Open Beta. Code Compile is a question type in which the candidate can write code that is automatically compiled, run, and validated against test cases defined by the Author.

The Author can define Sample test cases, against which the candidate can run their code while taking the test, to evaluate its correctness. The Author can also define Marking test cases, which are not available for the candidate and will be used to mark the question. The Author can also provide some predefined code that will be provided to the candidate.

This question can be used in several situations, namely asking the candidate to write the code that solves a particular problem or asking the candidate to correct a piece of code provided by the Author that would contain intended errors.

To activate this feature please reach out to the service desk. For more information please check out our documentation.

Audio Record Question Type (General Availability)

We are pleased to announce that Audio Recording questions are now Generally Available. Audio Record is a question that candidates can use to record audio. Authors can use this question type to, for instance,  evaluate pronunciation or in any situation they would require an oral answer.

The candidate can re-record their answer as many times as they want before submitting. Only the last version will be submitted. To activate this feature please reach out to the service desk. For more information please check out our documentation.

Safe Exam Browser 

End of Support for Safe Exam Browser Version 3.2.5

Official support for Safe Exam Browser version 3.2.5 will end in March 2025. This means candidates will not be able to start their tests on SEB 3.2.5.

SEB 3.3.3 contains important security fixes and therefore replaces all older versions including SEB 3.2.5 which should no longer be used.

Chromebook Progressive Web Application⌨️

Though Google has extended support for the native Kiosk app, Inspera is removing support for the native Kiosk App from May.

Inspera is releasing Chromebook Progressive Web Application (PWA) in March, offering a smoother experience, improving performance and usability, and addressing the feedback from the December Phase 1 release of the Chromebook PWA

To ensure a seamless transition, admins need to add extensions in the Google Admin console to enable online exit functionality and Stricter Kiosk Check verification. For Audio record question types, the tenancies where the tests using this question type are to be taken need to be whitelisted by the admins as well.

You can find a step-by-step guidance in our Help Center documentation on installation and key considerations for authors, invigilators, planners, and admins.

What's Improved in the Chromebook PWA?

• More accessible resources: Two rows of Additional Resources are now visible, compared to just one in the Legacy Chromebook application.
• Faster performance: Test assets like images and documents render more quickly, enhancing the candidate experience.
• Better navigation: Candidates can now return to the test after opening an external link during the exam—previously, they would be stuck on the link in the Legacy app.

Key Differences & Considerations

While the PWA maintains a secure lockdown environment, there are a few differences to be aware of:

• Certain Additional Resource URLs having a Stricter Content Security Policy (CSP) may not be accessible.
• A hard exit, i.e., clicking the physical power key on the Chromebook keyboard, is required when offline.
• If multiple candidates use Google SSO on the same Chromebook, sessions will persist.
• On the invigilator password page (when resuming a test), candidates will not be able to see or open additional resources, unlike in the Legacy app.

Inspera UI enhancements 

New Email UI Template

Now you will have a better and cleaner UI in our emails for Password reset and creating new passwords. It is now more aligned with our branding.

New APIs support ⚙️

API support to ‘Archive’ and ‘Restore’ a Test Event (General Availability)

Test Planners who use APIs to control test events, there’s some good news for you.

We are pleased to announce that the ability to ‘Archive’ and ‘Restore’ a test event is not only on the user interface but also available via the API. For more information, please check our API documentation.

Archive test event: For stricter validation rules on archived tests—such as blocking new or deleting existing test taker enrollments—please contact our service desk.

Accessibility Updates ♿

Improved Contrast for Drag & Drop 

Drop region outlines now meet minimum contrast ratio requirements for better visibility, benefiting users with low vision. (Previously, outlines were difficult to distinguish against the background.) 

Contrast Adjustments for Notes & Highlighter

Minimum contrast requirements are now applied across all three color modes for better readability. 

Improved Form Labels & Instructions 

• Clear labels and instructions are added to form controls to help users understand expected input.
• Enhances usability for cognitive, language, and learning disabilities and improves accuracy in submissions.
• Visible labels also support voice activation users, enabling better interaction with assistive technology.

Inspera Originality 🕵️

IO VPAT update

The IO VPAT has been updated to the WCAG 2.2 Guidelines and is now published, available here.

Heads up 💡

Notifications Configuration Improvement

Each user can currently define which notifications they wish to receive (e.g., when a new test is created) and how (via e-mail or push notification). In the next release, we’ll add more configuration power to our users by adding more events to the notification settings. 

Candidate Originality Pre-Check

Starting in May, the integration between Inspera Assessment and Inspera Originality will feature a new enhancement, allowing candidates to upload documents for pre-checking purposes via Inspera Originality. Pre-checking allows candidates to upload documents for preliminary review, generating a dedicated originality report that highlights potential issues. This enables candidates to assess and address any originality concerns before final submission.

Unified rounding of decimals in the candidate score across Inspera Assessment

In the May release, the Candidate view will be updated to display scores with a maximum of two decimals, consistent with what Markers and Authors currently see. The API: POST “/v1/fileExport/order” with resourceType “AllResults” will fetch the same rounded value.

New in this release  🚀

Administrative 📄

Visibility of Tenant Configurations

Available for: Tenant Administrator 

In January 2025, we introduced the Tenant Configuration Page to enhance transparency and provide better insight into your tenant configurations. With this release, we have made significant improvements, giving you a clearer and more relevant view of your configurations.

Key enhancements in this release:

• Cleaner and more intuitive interface: The Tenant Configuration Page has been redesigned to improve readability and navigation.
• Categories for better organization: Each property will now be assigned categories, helping you quickly identify and understand different configurations. Please note that category data will be continuously updated over time to improve accuracy and relevance.
• Advanced filtering options
  

  To improve searchability, we’ve enhanced the filtering capabilities:

  • Value filters enable filtering based on property values.
  • Category filters allow you to refine the list based on property categories.
  • Text search lets you quickly find properties by name or description.

Ongoing improvements

• Continuous updates to properties and categories – The list of available properties and their categories will be continuously  updated.
• Enhanced tenant-specific content – Over time, we will refine the list of configurations displayed based on the setup of your tenant, allowing the information to be more relevant.
• Caption and translation enhancements – Improvements to captions and translations will be made in the upcoming period.

With these updates, the Tenant Configuration Page provides greater transparency and a more focused view, making it easier to understand your tenant configurations.

Read more about this on our Help center  

Column Change in Classic Marking

In Classic Marking, when listing the candidates of a test that does not use a grade scale, the Grader now sees a column called “Final Marks” instead of “Final Grade”, containing the Marks obtained by the candidate.

Enhanced Security for Inspera Integrity Browser (IIB) 

We recently identified a potential security concern where VM System checks were passing when certain candidates were using IIB on VMware Workstations on Windows. This vulnerability has been fixed in IIB versions 1.16.2 and above to ensure the highest level of security for your assessments.

Psychometrics Dashboard: Enhanced Documentation & Our Strategy

In March, we launched the Psychometric Dashboard. This dashboard marks Phase 1 of our enhanced Test-Level Analysis strategy for Higher Education Institutions.

Its purpose is twofold: to provide clients with direct interaction with their test data via this external dashboard, and for Inspera to gather vital feedback on which statistics and visualisations users find most valuable.

Building upon that release, we've focused on enhancing the supporting documentation to ensure a smooth and productive experience. This update includes a comprehensive "Getting Started" guide, a detailed FAQ section, and provides an overview of our long-term psychometrics strategy, outlining the planned phased rollout.

Following this initial dashboard release (Phase 1), future developments include Phase 2: API Data Export (focused on enhanced data accessibility) and Phase 3: Integrated Platform Analytics (aiming for actionable insights and deeper workflow integration).

Further details regarding our strategy and phasing are described in the documentation.

Customizable Login Captions

We have introduced the option for customers to request caption updates relating to the Candidate and Admin login screens. This will help users navigate themselves to the correct login screens if they’re not familiar with the candidate and admin names. The following default captions can be changed:

Admin Login Screen

• Go to Candidate Login (Top right)
• Welcome to Admin login! (Main area)

Candidate Login Screen

• Go to Admin Login (Top right, if not hidden)
• Welcome to Candidate  (Main area)

Shared across both screens

• Or log in with registered Inspera user credentials (Under SSO buttons, if enabled)

To make these changes, please make a request through Service Desk stating which of the five captions above you’d like changed along with your preferred wording and translations. For more information, see Customisations Within Inspera.